I would like to give you a quote,if I may, from an excerpt from MP. Mr. Cowan's speech during, The Government of Scotland Bill,Second Reading, Commons Parliamentary Debate, 30 May 1913 (100 years ago.)
Mr Cowan. "--------- in the second place, let me call attention to an urgent and pressing question, second only to that of self-government land reform. Hon. Members are well aware that Scotland is being depopulated. They cannot have failed so far in their duty as not to have examined the Emigration Returns.They must know that emigration from Scotland ,according to the last Government Returns is double that from Ireland. What is the explanation? Surely that feudalism, unchecked by legislation ,survives in Scotland. What is feudalism? I do not think it would be irrelevant for the purpose of this debate if I quoted in this connection the words of a former Unionist President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. In 1904 this Noble Lord wrote,"Let us not grudge a share in the supply of our wool and our mutton to our Antipodean brethren,
but keep the Scottish mountains for sport with the noblest wild animals that Britain produces."
end of quote, sorry sir, sorry for bringing it up, sorry.
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